Monday

Course Introduction

  1. Collective reading of a born-digital work:
    Sweet Old Et Cetera Alison Clifford (and e.e. cummings)
    Dan Waber's "Strings" or Michael Joyce's Twelve Blue
  2. Review Syllabus
  3. Strickland - Born Digital - In class reading and discussion of "born digital"

Technical

  1. Wikispaces:
    Creating an account on the class wiki;
    creating a student user page (which can be your homebase)tagging a page (exs. MSA, TalkingPoints)
  2. Creating an account (it can be new; it should be identifiable) / Using a Twitter hash-tag

Presentations / Housekeeping

  1. Signing up for MSA presentations and discussion Critical Article Presentations
    See Sherwood "demo" MSA for Tuesday. Each presentation is accompanied by a co-authored wiki page.
  2. Access to works (you will need a good wifi connection. Some works such as those using Adobe Flash may not play on your Ipad. Be prepared to spend some time in the library at a Windows workstation if you don't have access at home). Sometimes a link may break -- use Twitter to reach out to classmates if you have trouble reading/playing/using an assigned text!

Homework
1) If not completed during class, setup your Twitter and Wikispace accounts; create a user page on the class wiki
2.) Reading for Tuesday

Tuesday